Do Your part and Vote. Everyone is doing it. Hewitt for S.O.T.Y!

Matt Hensley’s part from H-Street’s Shackle Me Not. Pretty much why I learned no-comply’s and bigspins…

I can remember the afternoon perfectly.I had session my parking curb in the driveway for a few hours you know just getting crazy working on my stalls and stuff when I decided I would do some maintence on my beat up Hensley deck. In reality it wasn’t really beat up at all. I was like 10 years old and the thing had rails on it. Sorry, one rail. So the precious graphic was still in pretty good shape. Being a kid I never thought of the future of skateboarding. So that day with no hesitation I took my dad’s palm sander and sanded that graphic right off completely making myself a new deck. Only years later to realize that this skateboarding stuff is history in the making or something like that.

I owed my friend 50 bucks so we came to the agreement I would spend the money on some wood and build him a quarter pipe. Plus it created this awesome ramp tuition! That’s right! This is the 50 dollar quarter pipe ramp building instruction guide and can you believe it? It’s free!

STEP ONE: Hopefully you already own some tools. If you don’t then try to borrow them from a friend or from your parents, or your friends parents. If your a loser, weirdo, or live in the middle of nowhere or and don’t have any friends or all your friends are like you and don’t have any tools then your next option is going to be to steal them. Sometimes people are so careless they will leave their tools on the job site over night or even over the weekend. If your not into that then my last suggestion would be to go buy them. Plus you can use them in the future.

STEP TWO:
Here are the essentials. This is what you will need the 50 bucks for:

10 2×4’s ( for the skeleton)

1 sheet of 3/4 inch OSB ( the sides of the ramp)

2 sheets of 1/4 inch plybo ( in English it’s plywood and it’s the riding surface)

2 32 oz Miller High Life’s

12 pack of Miller High Life’s ( bottles preferably)

2.0 grams of Jah (no stems or seeds please)

extras: pencil, chalk, tape measure

STEP THREE: I precut the 2×4’s on my dad’s chop saw at 6ft that way the ramp could have a 2ft deck… I know your thinking, ” I dont got a stupid expensive chop saw!” Well use a skillsaw, jigsaw, sawzall, or hand saw…

STEP FOUR: Now it’s time to figure out what the transition is going to be. Most people use a radius tool or line or whatever to get their perfect tranny. But what’s perfect? I say fuck it and just eye it and draw it out like I was back in forth grade drawing ramps on my folders. Just make sure you are able to get two tranny pieces out of the one piece.

STEP FIVE: Time to cut out the tranny pieces. Real men cut the tranny with a skillsaw. Since I’m not a real man I use a jig saw. It’s alot easier. Now that you have one tranny piece cut out flip it over and trace it onto the remaining piece of wood left. Then cut that one out.

There you have it. Your transistion.

STEP SIX: Time to put the skeleton together. I start on the bottom with the first 2×4 vertically and screw that shit into the side of the OSB. Make sure it’s level.

STEP SEVEN: Space the 2×4’s out at about 7 inches apart from each other. Keep it nice and even steven as much as possible and assemble the skeleton.

There you have it, your completed skeleton.

STEP EIGHT: Things will start to get blurry by this time. Powered tools are not recommended but what you want to do is take the 1/4 inch plywood and sheet the ramp. (screw it down on top of the skeleton) Make sure you do two layers because you will put a hole in it if you dont.

And that’s pretty much it. Now you got yourself a ramp to shred at your house instead of being like the 38 year old man getting lectured for not wearing all of his safety gear while skating at the skate park.

That means helmet, knee pads, elbow pads and wrist guards. At least that’s what you are suppose to wear in Carlsbad.

Have fun. Enjoy your ramp.

are really fun……

While everyone else was playing 3’s in the parking lot and drinking Jack, Ryan was putting down boneless’s on the back of the cradle at the skatepark in Mazula, Montana.

Got something better to watch?

I got hired to go to Indonesia a couple of summers back to film for a surf movie. Would you turn down a free trip to Indo? I didn’t hesitate. Bali is awesome. Here’s some random photos from the trip… and yeah I did bring my skateboard. - ended up giving it to a little local kid..

Monkey Temple: This place was right up the road from where we were staying and I only went there once. Pretty much blowing it. Place had thousands of monkey’s running around everywhere. You pay like 50 cents and can get some bananas and feed them. But you gotta be careful of these little fuckers. These smart asses will grab your hat, sunglasses, pretty much anything they can get from you. And watch your camera shit, especially changing lenses. They will jack you in a second.

Padang cave & tide pool: Pee N Ian, Hawaiian Ryan and myself grabbed some Bintang’s, (that’s the Indo beer and I can tell you it’s good) and went down to check out the tide pools and caves at low tide at Padang Padang. Pretty alright with me, but that’s if your into this hippie nature shit…. Well right in front of me in that tide pool was a sea snake that if it bites you, you die within minutes. So Ryan and PN were trying to pick it up and scare me with it. It all started when I was walking through this tide pool to get to this spot to take this photo and I freaked out when I saw it swim by me…

The bat cave: Every night 1000’s of bats would come flying out of this thing. This is when we just got done chucking rocks at them for a good 30 minutes……

Seen that National Geographic special on cattle mutilation? They have the same problem over their……

Lame sea life….

Dream Land: Yup, that’s what they call this place.

Dream Land Local: Hung out with this local lady and her son for a few hours one day comparing life styles to how we live here in the US and how they live there. Pretty awesome.

Dream Land Seller: This guy was hella cool. A pair of Bintang trunks + permission to shoot a few photos for 5 bucks = priceless.

Did I just use hella?

Dreamland Groms: They sure loved having their picture taken. It was cool at first then they wouldn’t leave me alone.

The Heckle Hut: This little shanti thing was right across the street from where we stayed. When I first arrived and got out of the taxi I was a little intimidated by the heckle hut. All the Locals hang out there every day and chill and heckle the shit out of people. But sure enough a week into the trip I felt right at home in the heckle hut and was right up in the mix for the heckle sessions….

Local at a ceremony…

Bali youth

Derek Bockelman paddling at Ulu Watu’s: So the whole point of this trip was to film this guy. Luckily Derek is a good friend of mine that I have known since 4th grade so it wasn’t weird going on a surf trip with him like it might be with some random bro brah’s. - Surfers can be wieners sometimes….

Derek’s got the race track wired. It’s only like 2ft deep right there. Fall and you’ll be taking a beating on dah reef boy!

he’s got the airs down too.

Padang Padang: This is what I walked up onto the first day we got there. I was tripping. Derek was getting the best waves…. It’s just too bad it was the first and last day of the trip that Padang Pandang looked like this.

Kutut’s Brother, look out point: This is the spot you go to check out Pandang and Impossibles. Just a rock throw away from where we stayed, we would be here all the time. I guess some Brazillian used to own the property and was busted for having half a joint so they threw him in prison or something like that. Yeah, if you didn’t know already Indonesia is very strict about the enforcement of their drug laws. When you arrive at the airport there is a huge sign that says ” Drugs = death “. Not in the way as what drugs will do to you, but in the way as what the government will do to you. Here’s Kutut’s brother enjoying the day.

Local lady from a ceremony at the beach: This is one of my favorite photos from the trip. I just posted up in this spot where I saw good lighting and waited. Boohyah! I got the shot!

Seafood section of the Super market

After playing some football on the beach and no I’m not talking about the jock0 homo John Madden shit your thinking but the other football. Everyone jumped in the water to cool off. I grabbed the camera first then cooled off myself…

Our tour guide at the Monkey Temple: This guy has it rough. ” Ok. USA! “

Nate Sherwood, cone ollie, Oceanside California 

The line up for this contest is ridiculous. Not in the ridiculous way as those Wal-Mart Mike Mcgill ad’s. That shit is just straight hurting. This isn’t. Here’s heat #2

Ryan Harris, Mazula Montana: back crail over the box in a bowl that suppose to be like a swimming pool but isn’t anything like a actual swimming pool even though it has the same features. So why not make it just like a swimming pool. I just dont know?

I’m not trying to jump on the bandwagon with this kind of shit. Cardiel, Beans, Phil are people are looked up to when I was growing up skating. So it’s only natural to want to share this with the clueless.